Thought exercise: play some first-person shooters immediately following the viewing of a few Westworld episodes and see if you don’t react somewhat differently to the deaths of enemy soldiers. I did this during the campaigns of both Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and experienced a… Read More ›

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Tonight are the Game Awards, a show that I will not watch nor livetweet nor pay attention to in any way beyond reading tomorrow’s recaps. But as I start to examine 2016 and put my own list together, I thought… Read More ›

I’m starting to get to that point where keeping an informal game-focused pop-culture blog seems ridiculous. I don’t really know what I’m doing here anymore. I’m feeling disconnected from the games I play; I’m feeling distanced from the books I… Read More ›

My silence of late is of a different sort than what usually happens whenever it goes quiet around here. More often than not, I stay quiet here because I don’t have anything particularly insightful to say and/or I’m too busy with day… Read More ›

[EDIT: I realize that, as I’d guessed in the first paragraph, I’d forgotten to talk about a bunch of things; those work-related interruptions did indeed screw up my train of thought. Additional thoughts will be added below.] I’m having one… Read More ›

1. I’ve been out of commission for longer than usual; we were out of town for a family wedding, and then the bulk of my evening free time was spent getting caught up on Westworld, which I adore. I’ve said here before… Read More ›

So I guess we need to talk about this. Here’s my prediction: tomorrow they officially reveal Red Dead Revolution, for a Spring 2017 release. While I’d love to see a protagonist that isn’t an older white man – a POC, a… Read More ›

So it’s been, what, 3 weeks since I started taking new head meds? Something like that. I have definitely noticed a change; the mood swings are almost totally gone, and if I feel blue every once in a while it’s… Read More ›

1. This was a lovely weekend. Glorious, brisk autumnal weather; met up with friends every single day, both old and new; had one of the best bloody marys I’ve ever had in my life; really, the only way it could’ve been… Read More ›

1. I keep waffling on how personal I can allow myself to get on this blog. But since other social media avenues are closed to me at the present moment, and since it’s been at least a week since I… Read More ›